Rich countries are scrambling to reserve coronavirus vaccine doses, which means poorer countries likely won't get them
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- Affluent countries are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to reserve doses of COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens.
- This means poorer countries may be left waiting months to get enough doses to inoculate their citizens.
- The US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands have all reserved doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford.
- A counter effort is underway to ensure that vaccine makers produce enough to cover everyone at the first instance. Читать дальше...